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Technology@beehaw.org•NASA to Develop Lunar Time Standard for Exploration Initiatives
13·2 years agoNo time is universal because time moves at different speeds under different gravity. The point of this initiative is to be able to accurately measure time in the moon’s lower gravity.
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Politics@beehaw.org•Donald Trump claims U.S. schools are offering sex-change surgeries for children
6·2 years agoIt’s like Hogwarts houses for non-transphobes
This implies that Harry Potter is for transphobes and I refuse to let JKR being a big ol POS take away Harry Potter from me. Death of the author exists for a reason.
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Socialism@beehaw.org•Fuck all cops, but should we really be calling them bastards?
3·2 years agoYeah calling a woman a bitch just oozes extra sexism that calling a man that doesn’t. That’s definitely in slur territory as far as I am concerned.
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Socialism@beehaw.org•Fuck all cops, but should we really be calling them bastards?
11·2 years agoI saw a headline today about Trump (in private) calling Kamala Harris a bitch and someone referred to it as a slur (presumably against women). Since there’s not an exact equivalent for men, but bastard is usually the “equivalent” male-aimed curse word, I was wondering when we would see someone on beehaw arguing that “bastard” is a slur, but against the children of unmarried parents.
Bastard is only a slur against a person born to unmarried parents if being born to unmarried parents is considered wrong. In older times, this WAS seen as wrong, because sex outside of marriage, and raising a child outside of a traditional family unit, was seen as wrong.
Bastard lost its ‘slur’ edge a long time ago. Trying to call it a slur is assigning “wrongness” to the state of being born to unmarried parents.
Words change meaning over time. Calling someone “queer” used to be an insult (now it can be used as hate speech but I can also say “Oh my friend Lucy? She’s queer.” without it being hateful). For that matter, queer didn’t always have sexual implications (it meant weird) — I feel like trying to call bastard a slur is the same as trying to say “queer” is a slur against the neurodivergent.
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Technology@beehaw.org•How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Security Awareness Firm KnowBe4
2·2 years agoYou cut off the second part of that sentence. The scam isn’t doing the work from a different location, the scam is that they’re using the money to fund North Korea. This isn’t “Kim gets a job online” it’s “Kim is a state actor that is a security risk at any moment and meanwhile causing KnowBe4 to send money to a sanctioned country.”
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Technology@beehaw.org•TikTok fails ‘disinformation test’ before EU vote with failures posing a risk to electoral processes, study shows
42·2 years agoCiting an internal investigation, the Chinese ByteDance-owned app said its systems correctly identified the breach, but the ads were approved due to “human error” by a moderator.
This makes it so much worse. If it were “our algorithms didn’t catch it” that’d be one thing, but “our algorithms caught it but we ran them anyway” reeks of malice.
Fan wikis are usually good for this sort of thing. Is this what you’re looking for?
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World News@beehaw.org•Hamas accepts cease-fire proposal for Gaza after Israel orders Rafah evacuation ahead of attack
42·2 years agoThe least terrible option is not invading…
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Environment@beehaw.org•Iceland will tunnel into a volcano to tap into virtually unlimited geothermal power
7·2 years agoSure but on a human scale?
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Technology@beehaw.org•Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100
32·2 years agoThere’s a great Veritasium video recently about this exact thing: https://youtu.be/d6iQrh2TK98
It’s a human thing, though. This is just more evidence of LLM’s problem with garbage in, garbage out: it’s human biases being present in a system that people want to claim doesn’t have them.
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World News@beehaw.org•India summons US diplomat over Kejriwal remarks
2·2 years agoHoly crap this site is absolutely unbearable without an ad blocker.
Seriously though Mohdi, if you don’t want people to be suspicious about you arresting your political opponents then you probably shouldn’t make a fuss when people are concerned. “Normal criminal arrest here, nothing to see” is much less guilty than calling in a diplomat to yell “How dare you question me!” at them.
Yeah, it just replaces the cert files and reload/restarts nginx for me. I don’t want it anywhere near my config files.
Microsoft has been trying to be more proactive about this: they changed all their documentation to say Entra ID instead of Azure Active Directory…before actually changing Azure AD to be called Entra ID…
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Politics@beehaw.org•Ron DeSantis drops out of presidential race and backs Trump
4·2 years agoI’m surprised it’s both this early and this late. The fact that he came in second in Iowa and then dropped out before New Hampshire is baffling.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Chinese Carmaker Overtakes Tesla as World’s Most Popular EV Maker
5·2 years agoThe Volkswagen e-Golf was literally just an electric GTI hatchback but they discontinued it…
I think there’s absolutely a space for an industry achievement/recognition award like the Oscar, Tony, etc. The Game Awards just seems like the most cynical attempt at forcing one into the video game space.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•TC on open source evangelists
10·2 years agoRecompiling my foundation and hoping it still holds the house up when I’m done.








Yeah they really didn’t think through time zones there…